Volumetric weight and dimensional weight are used in the field of transportation, notably Air transport, to calculate transport rates.
Learn more about volumetric weight and how to calculate it when working with Air freight in the below video:
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CMA CGM Brazil – Very Large Container Ship (VLCS) in action.
You can see below a video of the container ship CMA CGM Brazil, a container vessel from the Very Large Container Ship category, approaching the port of Charleston, S.C. where it docked at the Wando Welch Terminal.
In September 2020, it set the record for the largest vessel ever to enter the port of New York & New Jersey and to dock on the U.S. East Coast. Here approaching the port of Charleston.
Continue reading CMA CGM Brazil – Very Large Container Ship (VLCS) in action.Container port animation
Today, 18% of the global ocean cargo is moved thanks to shipping containers, container vessels, and container ports or terminals. But how do containers ports work?
Container ports can be gigantic like the Shanghai container port through which over 40 000 000 TEUs* pass each year or small local single quays possibly relying on the gears (cranes) of the arriving vessel for the loading operations.
They can be fully automated – calling upon automated cranes, handling and repositioning equipment – or can rely on a qualified workforce operating specialized equipment and cranes.
Liner versus Tramp – ocean transport services
When working with ocean freight and maritime transport, it is important to know and understand the difference between Liner and Tramp.
These terms are used to designate a type of ocean transport service and can also be used to designate how a vessel is currently operating.
2020 world merchant fleet
Based on the publicly available UNCTAD data, the world merchant fleet was composed of over 95,000 vessels in 2020.
The total deadweight* of this gigantic fleet was over 2,000,000 thousand tons – meaning that in 2020 the merchant fleet had the capacity to carry (all in : crew, cargo, fuel, ballast,….) over 2,000,000,000 tons at any one point in time.
Transportation – linear feet , linear meters
What are linear feet? What are linear meters?
A linear foot or a linear meter are, as they sound like, a foot or a meter in a line – a length of 1 foot or 1 meter. 5 linear meters describe a line 5 meters long.
In the field of transport, these linear meters or feet are used as a measurement of how much space is used in a truck. This linear footage or meters measurement is used notably for the pricing of LTL partload or LTL volume services.
Continue reading Transportation – linear feet , linear metersTruckload or Less Than Truckload – TL or LTL
When moving cargo by road, you will often have to decide between using a full Truckload (TL) service or a Less Than Truckload (LTL) one.
Many factors are taken into account when making this decision, but before we review a few of them, let’s first define and highlight the main differences between TL and LTL.
Main types of ocean cargo
The various goods transported by ocean and transiting through ports can be divided in 5 main types of cargo:
- Liquid Bulk (cca. 29% of the 2018 loaded tons for international maritime trade)
- Dry Bulk (cca. 46%)
- Containers (cca. 18%)
- Roll On Roll Off and Break Bulk. (put together – cca. 7%)
A logistics transport game
Can you help your customer select the best transport?
Play our transport mode selection game to find out if you can.
Learn about Air, Integrator, FCL, LCL, FTL and LTL transport modes and select the correct one for each of our transport scenarios.
Continue reading A logistics transport gameGantry cranes in action
A gantry is a bridge-like structure, with side supports, enabling it to span, to be, over something.
A gantry crane is exactly that: a crane, which thanks to its supporting side and cross beams, can straddle, be placed above cargo, and approach it from this position.
